Visual Arts Resourses-- SDMS

Elements of Art:   Line, Shape, Color, Value, Space, Texture and Form

Leonardo da Vinci Line   Lines can be: Horizontal or Vertical Curved or Straight Implied (dotted) Bold or Fine Diagonal Show Direction Outline an Object  -- Contour Show Emotion -- Communicate a Feeling (Gestural)

Value Relative Light or Darkness

Color Primary -- Red, Yellow, and Blue Secondary -- Orange, Green, and Violet Tertiary -- Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Blue-Green, Yellow- Green, Red-Violet, Blue-Violet

Wassily Kandinsky, Contrasting Sounds, 1924 Shape   Perceivable Area Geometric -- Measured Angles or Curves Organic, Natural, Freeform

Vincent van Gogh Texture   Visual -- Simulated Actual

Space Height, Width and the Illusion of Depth

Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater Form Three Dimensional Length, Width, and Depth